A couple of months ago I wrote a series of articles on the advantages of phone capable tablets. I think it’s time to provide an update on how one such device has continued to transform my life on a day to day basis.
In the past couple of weeks, I have been lucky enough to have the chance to help a number of nuclear medicine researchers. I worked with them in my capacity as a linguist because, unlike our neighbors in Malaysia and India, Indonesia is not a former British colony thus, as a consequence, English remains a significant barrier for progress. The researchers I work with were working on a research to develop a nuclear medicine technique that can be deployed nationwide to help people with keloid problems. Obviously, to be able to conduct their research, they have to also gather information from various international scientific papers on the subject. While the prevalence of the modern internet has allowed them access to a vast number of papers, none of these are available in the researcher’s mother tongue. I was invited to help alleviate this problem by providing them with Bahasa Indonesia summaries of the various papers that they needed to help with their research.
In the past, doing things like this would involve a large work desk, a PC and stacks of paper as well as notepads for me to scribble stuff on. I would first have the individual papers printed and then I would read through them will taking notes on my paper notebook before going to the PC from time to time to type my summaries.
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